Papers by Rita Kirshstein
Community college practitioners are quick to note that official IPEDS analyses of expenditures an... more Community college practitioners are quick to note that official IPEDS analyses of expenditures and revenues per FTE overstate the amount they spend on each student. This results from the fact that enrollments in their non-credit courses are not included in the FTE count but expenditures for these courses are. While this situation may also occur in four-year colleges, the extent to which it occurs is thought to be less of a problem in determining costs per student. Using data from three states, this is the first study of its kind that examines this measurement issue. With it comes an invitation to readers to participate (crowd sourcing) in the study as joint authors(s) by contributing data and their analysis. Richard M. Romano is professor emeritus of economics at Broome Community College (State University of New York) and director of the Institute for Community College Research. He is also an affiliated faculty member at the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute at Cornell University. Corresponding author rmr46@cornell.edu Rita J. Kirshstein is a visiting professor of higher education at George Washington University. While at the American Institutes for Research for many years, she directed the Delta Cost Project. Corresponding author ritak@gwu.edu Mark D’Amico is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership (Higher Education) at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Prior to his role as a faculty member he was an administrator in the South Carolina and North Carolina systems of higher education. Willard Hom is an education consultant. Prior to his retirement, he was Director of Research & Planning, Chancellor’s Office California Community Colleges.
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The Maryland Higher Education Commission funded the American Institutes for Research (AIR) to rev... more The Maryland Higher Education Commission funded the American Institutes for Research (AIR) to review the state's financial aid programs and to make recommendations for improvement. To determine how to improve the content, delivery, and administration of financial aid in Maryland, AIR conducted a number of activities, including a literature review, conversations with experts from other states, focus groups and informal surveys of financial aid directors at Maryland colleges and universities, an informal survey of high school guidance counselors, and interviews with state legislators and educational administrators. Drawing on the information from these sources and document reviews, AIR identified seven areas of concern regarding the delivery of financial aid in Maryland: (1) the proliferation of financial aid programs; (2) adequacy and timing of funding; (3) administration of financial aid; (4) outreach to younger and nontraditional students; (5) graduate and professional educatio...
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American Institutes for Research, 2014
The rise in college spending has been blamed on factors ranging from broad economic trends outsid... more The rise in college spending has been blamed on factors ranging from broad economic trends outside higher education’s control that drive up the price of highly educated workers to an all-out competition among colleges vying for prestige, excellence, and high rankings (Archibald & Feldman, 2011; Bowen, 1980; Baumol & Bowen, 1966). Many also point to declining faculty workloads, generous salaries and perks for top university employees, wasteful spending, and growing “administrative bloat” (Ginsburg, 2011a; Vedder, Matgouranis, & Robe, 2011; Greene, Kisida, & Mills, 2010; Belkin & Thurm, 2012; Hechinger, 2012).
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Community College Review, 2019
Objective: In the first study of its kind, the impact of excluding noncredit enrollments in calcu... more Objective: In the first study of its kind, the impact of excluding noncredit enrollments in calculations of spending in community colleges is explored. Noncredit enrollments are not reported to Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), but expenditures for these efforts are. This study corrects for this omission and provides new estimates of spending on community college students in four states. Method: Data on noncredit enrollments were made available from four states—New York, New Jersey, California, and North Carolina. Interviews with campus and state officials within each state helped us verify the findings. In addition, Delta Cost Project data were analyzed and adjusted to account for noncredit enrollments. Results: Our analysis indicates that the expenditure per full-time equivalent (FTE) student measure, which researchers typically use, seriously overstates the resources that community colleges have to spend on educating students; however, great variations exist...
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... financial aid types on year-to-year persistence of high school seniors of 1980 found social a... more ... financial aid types on year-to-year persistence of high school seniors of 1980 found social and educational background had differential effects at different points in the college experience,college experiences were influential, student aid had a positive effect on persistence, and ...
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Delta Cost Project at American Institutes For Research, 2012
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Delta Cost Project at American Institutes For Research, Dec 1, 2012
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Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs Productivity and Accountability, 2009
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